"I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people."

-- Robert Runcie

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Saint Quotes

“There are a lot of car bombs and roadside bombs, house bombs, even, in this city planted by ISIS. So - but it's going to be a tough fight ahead, and the Iraqi generals expect to take the city back, the city of Ramadi, by mid-January.”
“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.”
“During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.”
“The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.”
“If it werenâ€™t for my horse, I wouldnâ€™t have spent that year in college.”
“I had died and woken up in High School Musical”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
“I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia
“I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.”

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